Penny Mordaunt

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Penelope Mary Mordaunt (/ˈmɔːrdənt/; born 4 March 1973) is a British Conservative politician serving as Secretary of State for Defence since 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North since 2010. Mordaunt served as Secretary of State for International Development from 2017 to 2019. A member of the House of Commons, Mordaunt previously worked in the business and communications industry.

Mordaunt served in the Cameron Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government prior to being appointed Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence in May 2015, the first woman to hold this post.

From July 2016 to November 2017, she served in the May Government as Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, and in November 2017 she was appointed International Development Secretary following the resignation of Priti Patel.

In May 2019, Mordaunt was appointed Defence Secretary after Gavin Williamson was dismissed by Prime Minister Theresa May following a leak of highly classified information from the National Security Council. She is the first woman to hold this post and is currently the only female MP who is a Royal Naval Reservist.